A Volume of Essays and PoemsL'Ora queta publishing Company, 1907 - 301 pages |
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... Ideal , 35 205 66 པ 216 Play Saint or Sinner , Only a Tramp , The Speechless Voice and Waiting Pen , A Hero , Cause and Effect , Christmastide , States and Moods of the Mind , Suppose , Where the River Ran Low , 66 219 66 245 66 247 255 ...
... Ideal , 35 205 66 པ 216 Play Saint or Sinner , Only a Tramp , The Speechless Voice and Waiting Pen , A Hero , Cause and Effect , Christmastide , States and Moods of the Mind , Suppose , Where the River Ran Low , 66 219 66 245 66 247 255 ...
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... ideal effusions it not only serves to refresh the spirits of the other members of the Hierarchy , but it frequently makes excursions into the future and brings back with it suggestions and predictions which even Reason is bound to ...
... ideal effusions it not only serves to refresh the spirits of the other members of the Hierarchy , but it frequently makes excursions into the future and brings back with it suggestions and predictions which even Reason is bound to ...
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... ideal composition , where there is no text or verse with fixed moods to govern ; but where the composer is fancy free to select his own moods and pass from one to another adlibitum , as his genius and the laws of affinity , or contrast ...
... ideal composition , where there is no text or verse with fixed moods to govern ; but where the composer is fancy free to select his own moods and pass from one to another adlibitum , as his genius and the laws of affinity , or contrast ...
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... ideal opportunities abound ? Yes , America ! She is certainly a sweet land of liberty ! " the home of the brave and the free ! " A country where head - heart - and conscience is free ! A country that tolerates neither king - caste ...
... ideal opportunities abound ? Yes , America ! She is certainly a sweet land of liberty ! " the home of the brave and the free ! " A country where head - heart - and conscience is free ! A country that tolerates neither king - caste ...
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... feet and grinning , Fair ones will false praise be spinning . Be ye great ! -yes , —be a hero ! Such an one as he was , -Nero ! But so sure as God's Eternal , Ye shall bide with the Infernal ! THE IDEAL . What is that which we call the.
... feet and grinning , Fair ones will false praise be spinning . Be ye great ! -yes , —be a hero ! Such an one as he was , -Nero ! But so sure as God's Eternal , Ye shall bide with the Infernal ! THE IDEAL . What is that which we call the.
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Page 97 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 164 - Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 122 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 54 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Page 1 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 1 - O Reader ! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader ! you would find A tale in every thing.
Page 303 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 164 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain...
Page 199 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 151 - A time to sow and a time to reap. A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to be born and a time to die.